Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps some day society will accept the fact that women, too, can successfully climb the corporate ladder-without stopping in every bedroom along...
...pure and very, very simple. Down with the feds, up with "the people," which in practice means state authorities and the movers of industry and commerce. Reagan believes this message in every cell of his 6-ft. 1-in., 185-lb. body. If he starts sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom next January, the U.S. will see the biggest change in tone and direction from Washington since F.D.R.'s wheelchair rolled into the Oval Office nearly 50 years...
...church, a converted dormitory, comfortably houses the men who quietly wander in and out, exploring Roxbury and following the daily job development program sponsored by the World Relief Corporation. The building sleeps six in a bedroom, with a bed for each man, spacious bath facilities, large recreation room and heating...
...wall and wall, window and sky, or the lit edge of the curtain and the worn radiant torso, take on something of the strangeness of the space in a good De Chirico. The body is enfolded by its own distances from the world, while planted solidly in a real bedroom. By the same token, the realism of the scene is also an appeal-though a subliminal one-to art history: Jo facing the August light of Truro recalls any number of quattrocento Annunciations...
...that sometimes make for such grimm reading. When the good characters are afflicted, they feel sadness but not pain; the villains are punished or dispatched at the end with commendable speed. In The Marriage of a Queen and a Bandit, a pesky ex-husband is discovered hiding in the bedroom of his former wife and her new mate: "At once the king awakened, sounded the trumpet he wore around his neck night and day, as is customary with kings, and the soldiers came running from all directions. They saw the bandit, slew him, and that was that...